said students shall be equally apportioned among the various senatorial districts, and the senators and representatives shall recommend such young men as they in their judgment shall deem to be entitled to the privileges of education in such college.

§7. The Agricultural College Board shall have the government, care and management of the farm and college, and direct the disposition and use of any moneys appropriated and donated to the college, or to which the college may at any time be entitled.

§ 8. Said board may fix the time and place of holding their meetings, and adopt rules for their own government not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter. They shall choose from their own number a president and a treasurer. They shall choose a secretary, who may or may not be a member of the board as they shall determine. Said officers shall hold their offices two years from the last Wednesday of February, and till their successors are chosen. § 9. Said board shall erect, provide and keep suitable and proper buildings, and establish and maintain schools therein, improve and furnish the farm, and adopt and execute such measures as they may deem necessary to secure the successful operation of the college, and promote its designed objects: provided, that they incur no expenses or debts beyond the moneys that may be appropriated or donated and within their immediate control for such purposes.

$10. The secretary shall record all proceedings of the board and of the faculty; and all regulations and rules for the government of the college. He shall keep a careful account with each field, in connection with a plan of the farming lands in which shall be shown the manner and cost of preparing ground, the kind of crops, time of planting or sowing, condition, time and manner of harvesting, the labor devoted to each process and its cost, with cost of preparing and maturing crops for market, price for which it is sold, and such other matters as the agricultural college board shall require of him. The record shall, at all reasonable hours, be open to the inspection of any citizen of the State, and the secretary shall report to the governor, on or before the first day of December of each year, which report shall embrace the proceedings of the board, and the faculty, and the condition and situation of the college and farm.

§ 11. Said board shall choose a president of the college, and such professors, teachers, superintendents and employees as the necessities of the institution demand, who shall be paid such compensation as the board determine, and whose duty shall be prescribed by the board.

§ 12. The president, professors and superintendents, and the secretary of the Agricultural College Board, shall constitute the faculty. The faculty shall have the special charge of the college and farm, and shall, with the consent of the board, make all needful rules and regulations necessary for the government and discipline of the same, regulating the routine of study, labor, meals, duties and exercises necessary to the preservation of morals, health and decorum.

§ 13. All the swamp lands in McLeod county, donated to the agricultural college by act of the legislature approved March twelve, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall be deemed to be inviolably set apart and donated for the use and benefit of the agricultural college provided for in this chapter.

§ 14. Whenever the governor shall, upon the recommendation of the Agri

cultural College Board, deem the sale of a part or all of said swamp lands necessary, he shall order the commissioner of the State land office to sell the same, who shall, thereupon, proceed to have the same appraised and sold, in the same manner as school lands are now appraised and sold, except that such lands may be sold at or above any appraised value, not less than two and one half dollars per acre; and all money arising from such sales shall be depositedin the office of the State treasurer, subject to the order of the Agricultural College Board, and be drawn and expended in such manner as they may direct: provided, that none of said moneys shall be expended for any other purpose than the erection of agricultural college buildings upon the farm herein referred to, or the improvement of the farm, or the endowment of the professorships of the college. And until said lands are sold they shall be under the control of the Agricultural College Board, and may be used for the benefit of the college, or may be rented, and the money arising therefrom used for the benefit of the college.

§ 15. The interest of all the moneys and proceeds arising from the sales of all the lands donated to the State of Minnesota by act of congress, approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled "An act donating public lands to the several states and territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," shall be applied and appropriated annually to the maintenance and support of the agricultural college of Minnesota, and the same shall be drawn from the State treasury upon the order of the president of the agricultural board, countersigned by the secretary of the board.

16. When the necessary buildings have been erected and the college provided, the governor shall certify the fact to the secretary of the interior, and see that the title to the lands donated by congress to the State, herein referred to, shall be perfected in the State.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE NEW HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE OF AGRICULture and THE MECHANIC ARTS.

(Approved July 7, 1866.)

SECTION 1. A college is hereby established, incorporated, and made a body politic and corporate, by the name of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, whose leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in conformity to an act of Congress, entitled "An Act donating land to the several states and territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," approved July 2, 1862, and by that name sue and be sued, prosecute and defend to final judgment and execution, and shall be vested with all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the liabilities, incident to corporations of a similar nature.

§ 2. The general government of this college shall be vested in nine trustees, five of whom shall be appointed, one from each councillor district, and commissioned by the governor, with the advice of the council, and four of the trustees of Dartmouth College; and be so classified and commissioned that the offices of three trustees shall become vacant annually.

§ 3. The trustees shall appoint a secretary, who shall keep a full and fair record of their proceedings, and a treasurer, who shall give bonds for the faithful discharge of his duties, in such sum as the trustees may require, and may receive such compensation for his services as they may deem reasonable. They shall appoint a faculty of instruction, prescribe their duties, and invest them with such powers for the immediate government and management of the institution as they may deem most conducive to its best interests.

§ 4. No trustee shall receive any compensation for his services, but expenses reasonably incurred shall be paid by the college.

§ 5. The trustees shall make an annual report to the legislature of the financial condition, of the operations and progress of the college, recording any experiments made, with their cost and results, including state, industrial and economical statistics, as may be supposed useful, one copy of which shall be transmitted by mail, free, to all other colleges which may be endowed under provisions of the act of Congress hereinbefore mentioned, and also one copy to the United States Secretary of the Interior.

§ 6. The trustees are authorized and empowered to locate and establish the college incorporated by this act at Hanover, in this State, in connection with Dartmouth College, and with that corporation to make all necessary contracts in relation to the terms of connection therewith, subject to be terminated upon notice of one year, given at any time after fourteen years, and to its furnishing to the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts the free use of an experimental

farm, of all requisite buildings, laboratories, apparatus and museums of said Dartmouth College, and for supplying such instruction, in addition to that furnished by its professors and teachers, as the best interests of its students may require; and, also, as to any legacy said Dartmouth College may receive from the estate of the late David Culver. The said trustees are also authorized and directed to furnish, so far as may be practicable, free tuition to indigent students of the college, and to make provision for the delivery of free lectures in different parts of the State, upon subjects pertaining to agriculture and the mechanic arts.

§ 7. All funds derived from the sale of the land scrip issued to the State of New Hampshire by the United States, in pursuance of the act of Congress hereinbefore mentioned, shall be invested in registered bonds of the State of New Hampshire or of the United States, which shall be delivered to the State treasurer, who shall have custody of the same, and pay over the income thereof, as it may accrue to the treasurer of the College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts.

§ 8. His excellency the governor may call the first meeting of the trustees, by sending to each a written or printed notice of the time and place of holding the same, ten days before the day of meeting.

NEW JERSEY.

AN ACT APPROPRIATING SCRIP FOR THE PUBLIC LANDS GRANTED TO THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY BY THE ACT OF Congress, apprOVED JULY 2, 1862.,

(Approved April 4, 1864.)

WHEREAS, The governor of this State has received from the Secretary of the Interior the scrip for public lands granted to the State of New Jersey by an act of Congress of the United States, approved July 2, 1862, and holds the same, subject to such disposition as may be made by the legislature-therefore:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: That the governor of this State, the attorney general, the secretary of state, the comptroller, in case such office be created, and the treasurer of the State, and their successors in office for the time being, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners to take charge of such scrip, and, as agents of the State, to sell and dispose of the same at such time or times, and in such mode as may appear to be most advantageous and safe; and in the name, and on behalf of this State, to convey and transfer the same to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, and to invest the avails thereof in the manner specially provided by said act of Congress.

§ 2. Said commissioners shall, semi-annually, pay over the interest of the fund which may result from the sale of said land scrip to the trustees of Rutger's College, in New Jersey, for the special purposes, and upon the special conditions hereinafter set forth.

§ 3. Said trustees shall devote said interest wholly and exclusively to the maintenance, in that department of Rutger's College known as Rutger's Scientific School, of such courses of instruction as (including the courses of instruction already established by said trustees,) shall carry out the intent of said act of Congress in the manner specially prescribed by the fourth section of said act.

§ 4. Said trustees shall furnish gratuitous education in said courses of instruction to pupils of said school in such manner as the legislature shall prescribe; the number of pupils to be so received gratuitously into said school shall be in each year such a number as would expend a sum equal to one half of the said interest for the same year, in paying for their instruction in said school, if they were required to pay for it at the regular rates charged to other pupils of said school for the same year; said pupils so nominated and received shall be citizens of this State, and shall be admitted into said school upon the same terms, and subject to the same rules and discipline which shall apply to all other pupils of said school, with the single exception that they shall not be required to pay anything for their instruction.

§ 5. Said trustees shall annually make and distribute the reports required by the fourth paragraph of section fifth of said act of Congress.

§ 6. No portion of the said interest shall be paid over to said trustees until they shall contract with this State, in such form as the said commissioners shall